Michael Abels, who scored the haunting score for Jordan Peele’s Nope was the big winner at the 4th Annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards (SCL) for score and songs in visual media last night at the Skirball Cultural Center. Abels won Best Score for a Studio Motion Picture. He also won the Jury Award for the opera he co-composed with Rhiannon Giddens, Omar.
Awards were presented across seven categories for music in visual media in addition to the Spirit of Collaboration Award and two Jury Awards.
Ryan Lott accepted the award for Outstanding Score for an Independent Film for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once on behalf of Son Lux.
In the song categories, Diane Warren accepted her award for Outstanding Original Song for a Drama or Documentary for “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman.
Additionally, filmmaker/lyricist Guillermo del Toro and lyricist Roeban Katz accepted their award for Outstanding Original Song for a Musical or Comedy for “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, written by Katz, del Toro, and Alexandre Desplat.
A second Jury Award was presented to Women Warriors: The Voices of Change.
The Spirit of Collaboration Award was presented to Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz and Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle. The composer and filmmaker have collaborated on five films, including Babylon, La La Land, Whiplash, the First Man, and Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. The presentation of the award was accompanied by a musical performance including “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from La La Land, the First Man theme for harp and theremin, and a Babylon Medley, including “Voodoo Mama” and “Herman’s Hustle.”
Nami Melumad, who co-composed Thor: Love and Thunder with Michael Giacchino and became Star Trek’s first female composer with Star Trek: Prodigy, won the David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
REELated:
The evening was hosted by actor Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), who also performed. Below are all of the awards. Winners in bold:
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR A STUDIO FILM
- Michael Abels – Nope
- Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Carter Burwell – Banshees of Inisherin *
- Michael Giacchino – The Batman
- John Powell – Don’t Worry Darling
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR AN INDEPENDENT FILM
- Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once *
- Past SCL Awards winners who went on to win Oscars include Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Soul, Hildur Guđnadóttir for Joker, Hans Zimmer for Dune, and Billie Eilish and FINNEAS for No Time To Die.
- Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- Sharon Farber – Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
- Rob Simonsen – The Whale
- Mark Smythe – The Reef: Stalked
OUTSTANDING SONG FOR A MUSICAL/COMEDY
- Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro – “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Khiyon Hursey, Sukari Jones, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Mark Sonnenblick – “Good Afternoon” – Spirited
- Danny Elfman – “Light the Match” from Central Park
- Billy Eichner, Marc Shaiman – “Love is Not Love” from Bros
- Weird Al Yankovic – “Now You Know” from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
OUTSTANDING SONG FOR A DRAMA/DOCUMENTARY
- Diane Warren – “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman *
- Taylor Swift – “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
- Lady Gaga, BloodPop – “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick *
- Tems, Rihanna, Ludwig Goransson, Ryan Coogler – “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever *
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” from Bones and All
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR TELEVISION
- Cristobal Tapia de Veer – The White Lotus
- Nicholas Britell – Andor
- Siddhartha Khosla – Only Murders in the Building
- Bear McCreary – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- Theodore Shapiro – Severance
OUTSTANDING SCORE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Stephanie Economou – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök
- Nainita Desai – Immortality
- Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök
- Winifred Phillips – Jurassic World Primal Ops
- Christopher Wiliis – Cat Burglar
DAVID RASKIN AWARDS FOR EMERGING TALENT
- Nami Melumad – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- Dara Taylor – The Invitation
- Anna Drubich – Barbarian
- Deandre James Allen-Toole – God’s Country
- Esin Aydingoz – Simchas and Sorrows
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